Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Really interesting to see the results from the last couple of tournaments for the '23 Hawks and Crabs. Both teams have gone down the path of adding older out of state players instead of actually coaching and developing their existing players and both have gotten spanked in tournament play. Wonder what their plans will be for next year?

Win Baby, Win . The cat is out of bag in MIAA. Not enough true athletes in MIAA lacrosse to compete against teams that have them. holdback advantage is nil now as all MIAA schools eventually went that route. Now the schools with out of state athletes will/are at top of heap ( CH for three straight Titles) . Several schools this year along with clubs are bringing in out of town Athletes to compete.

Like the coach always says...cant teach speed and athleticism.

Well both of these clubs brought in out of state athletes who were older, bigger, faster, stronger and they still lost big time this summer. To me that means sub par coaching.

At this age creating team culture and coaching (developing) your players is what creates a winning team.

Agreed. Coach Mac on 2023 Crabs has won mainly due to holdbacks over the years. Not so sure about him and his staff when it comes to the X's & O's in a close game. Now he is trying to get an advantage by recruiting out of towners to the BL boarding school-even if it means displacing local talent that has been on the team for a while.